Amazon.com description: Product Description: This volume brings together Donald Davie's 1976 Clark Lectures (Cambridge), the 1980 Ward-Phillips Lectures and other material, illuminating the heritage of distinctively English Protestant traditions. The book concerns an area of English literature, history and spirituality arguably unvalued now, when the churches themselves are at pains to forget the sermons, hymns and tracts which defined and energized their chapel lives. Davies appraises the elements that shaped his culture and imagination.